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Ay, that I had not done a thousand more.Even now I curse the day__nd yet, I think,Few come within the compass of my curse,__herein I did not some notorious ill,As kill a man, or else devise his death,Ravish a maid, or plot the way to do it,Accuse some innocent and forswear myself,Set deadly enmity between two friends,Make poor men's cattle break their necks;Set fire on barns and hay-stacks in the night,And bid the owners quench them with their tears.Oft have I digg'd up dead men from their graves,And set them upright at their dear friends' doors,Even when their sorrows almost were forgot;And on their skins, as on the bark of trees,Have with my knife carved in Roman letters,'Let not your sorrow die, though I am dead.'Tut, I have done a thousand dreadful thingsAs willingly as one would kill a fly,And nothing grieves me heartily indeedBut that I cannot do ten thousand more.

God speaks to those who are prepared in their hearts to listen. Discern the voice from heaven above the noisy din of earth__ confusion.

The Bible teaches that a man who can control his tongue can control his whole personality.

Suppose there was no anger, no profanity, no lying, no grumbling or complaining; suppose there were no dirty stories told, no unjust criticism__hat a different world this would be!

Some of the most healing words in any language are, ____ sorry. Will you forgive me?_ How much more we need that confession to our Father in heaven.

Each of us has a tongue and a voice. These instruments of speech can be used destructively or employed constructively.

Double-mindedness means the faculty of holding two contradictory beliefs in one__ mind and accepting both of them. We talk out of both corners of our mouths at once.

We insult God by speaking to Him with our lips while our hearts are far from Him.

Our daily conversation when we meet each other, whether it be in the office or on the campus or in the shop, should be concerned with the things of God.

You can use your tongue to slander, to gripe, to scold, to nag, and to quarrel; or you can bring it under the control of God__ Spirit and make it an instrument of blessing and praise.

Are you willing to follow [Christ] with a disciplined mind and tongue?

The Scripture warns about evil communications that corrupt good manners. Off-color jokes and dirty stories have no place in the Christian life. Thousands of people are engaging in immorality by the way they talk. Keep your talk pure. Ask God to purify your tongue.

Pain has many faces . . .the unseen part of man is often the victim of the most debilitating of pains . . . a man can endure excruciating physical pain, and yet he can be felled by one unkind word.

We should say nothing that we would not wish to say in His Presence. We should do nothing that we would not do in His Presence.

Cursing, telling smutty stories, smearing the good name of another, and referring irreverently to God and the Scriptures may be considered as coming under the expression corrupt speech. Our speech is to be clean, pure, and wholesome.

Darkness promotes speech.

An advice is truly valuable when people not just give it their ears but also their obedience.

A Speechmaker's Prayer: "Let each word of mine be tender and sweet, Just in case someone might make me eat it.